TheNextWeb Forum

"Despite the claims of the MPAA and other supporters of SOPA and PIPA, file-sharing does not negatively impact box office sales in the U.S., according to a new study conducted by economists from Wellesley College and the University of Minnesota." - LANjackal from Bookmarklet

"As you can see in the image a couple of values are displayed. But what do those stand for? Here the answer: Resident: Memory mapped by the process that is present in physical memory. It’s normally the memory usage you will see in the systems process manager. GC: Duration of the last Garbage Collector activity and in brackets the time when the second last activity happened. CC: Duration of the last Cycle Collector activity and in brackets the time when the second last activity happened. Logging: Starts and stops the internal logger, which writes out the current memory usage and GC/CC activities to a log file, which can be found in the memchaser sub directory of your Firefox profile." - LANjackal from Bookmarklet

"In Steven Sinofsky’s thesis of Windows on ARM (generically dubbed WOA) published on the Building Windows 8 blog today, two photographs of an early development build of Windows running on prototype ARM hardware dates the effort to as far back as 22 January 2010, almost a week before iPad’s announcement on the 27th. Although Microsoft waited almost a year later to reveal WOA for the first time in public at a CES 2011 press conference, it’s now clear Microsoft too had future bets on an ARM-based ecosystem even before the iPad began selling and ARM took the spotlight for tablet devices." - LANjackal from Bookmarklet

"social platforms provide the opportunity to create focus groups at a scale never before possible. Millions of people talk about all sorts of things online, and with the right systems and algorithms in place, it’s possible to decipher how they actually feel about the topics they’re discussing. If you want to know how the web-savvy world feels about a product, movie, team, you name it, millions of data sources should trump interviewing a few hundred people in malls across the country." - LANjackal from Bookmarklet

"Germany has delayed signing an international copyright treaty that has some Internet users worried about online censorship, joining Poland and the Czech Republic in hesitating on the issue. The Foreign Ministry said Germany held off on signing the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, or ACTA, "to leave room for discussions" after the Justice Ministry voiced concerns. An official signature is needed before the deal can go to Parliament for approval." - LANjackal from Bookmarklet

"LinkedIn is connecting with investors. The dominant professional networking site was one of the few bright spots Friday on Wall Street. Its shares skyrocketed nearly 18% to $89.96 in the single biggest one-day jump since its initial public stock offering in May. LinkedIn’s stock has doubled in value since the IPO. The jet fuel powering the professional networking site: its fourth-quarter earnings, released Thursday. Revenue more than doubled from the previous year to nearly $168 million. The Mountain View, Calif., company earned $6.9 million, surpassing analysts’ expectations. And it forecast higher in 2012. LinkedIn expects its revenue to rise as much as 65% this year to $860 million." - LANjackal from Bookmarklet

"The so-called "hacktivist" group Anonymous claimed responsibility for the attack on government and law enforcement computers in Alabama on Friday in response to what it called the state's "racist" immigration law." - LANjackal from Bookmarklet

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